I think what didn't help Game was owning Gamestation as well, so in some places they would own two or more outlets essentially competing against themselves. When realistically the place could at best support one store.

I managed to get season one of the next generation on blu-ray in HMV this afternoon for £46 because they were marking X's on things that have 25% off so should of been £62.

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Cheaper from Play.com -- £44.69 -- sorry.

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This sums it up, even stuff in their big going-out-of-business-we're-fucked sale, its still cheaper to buy it online.

I was looking round two HMVs this past week in different cities; nothing worth buying. Dark Knight Rises on bluray- £19.99 You could get it for about £13 at some supermarkets and online when it was first released

I managed to get season one of the next generation on blu-ray in HMV this afternoon for £46 because they were marking X's on things that have 25% off so should of been £62.

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Cheaper from Play.com -- £44.69 -- sorry.

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This sums it up, even stuff in their big going-out-of-business-we're-fucked sale, its still cheaper to buy it online.

I was looking round two HMVs this past week in different cities; nothing worth buying. Dark Knight Rises on bluray- £19.99 You could get it for about £13 at some supermarkets and online when it was first released

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When their sale first started a bargain site on Twitter put out a tweet saying that HMV had a 25% sale going on and I replied "Does that mean I can walk round it without feeling ripped off just being there?" and they said " wouldn't go that far." I think that shows exactly what their reputation was.

But the same can be said for Comet, even their huge going out of business sale there was stuff going cheaper at the Curry's next door. Which shows it's not just about physical shops vs online.

Bah, whatever replaces HMV will just be gone too in a year. Just like how Zavvi replaced Virgin megastores... that lasted

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I'm not so sure, there definitely seems to be support from the music/film industry to keep something open on the highstreet for CDs/DVD/Blurays.

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Yep, read they're offering them good terms on credit and extending everything they can to let them get back on their feet. Of course they don't want a near monopoly going to the supermarkets and Amazon.

Gee, I wonder if anyone associated with Amazon lobbied for the change in the VAT rules for the Channel Islands.

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When they changed the rules so that any company who had recently set up in the Channel Islands who were obviously doing it for the VAT exemption Amazon shut their Jersey operation down and partnered with a company that had been established there to provide those services. Have to wonder what'll happen with those partnerships now.